Robert Bergman published this book, “A Kind of Rapture,” in 1998, and I missed it until this particular solstice.  A forward by Toni Morrison and 52 headshots, no words, not even page numbers, so astonishing; yet ordinary. Immediately I recognized that, “This is what I have been trying to explain to myself and you.”This is [...]

So I published a book in 2009, along with 200,000 other Americans and even more Brits. How do I explain this to myself, or to anybody? Why would a grown man publish;  “to make publicly or generally known?” Judging by the amount of time and effort, indeed team effort, it must be something that I [...]

Tolerance and inclusion don’t come without relativism, and tolerance and inclusion are increasingly necessary in a world of AK -47s. Families do tradition, tribes do tradition, muzzle loaders pretending the red coats are coming when they aren’t, that happened 200 years ago. Indoctrination of the youth, schooling, discipline, if left to parents, and tribes are [...]

I do care where I am and who is there, but mostly I’m inside me taking care of the differences between what is inside and what is outside. This place and everybody in it is outside. Only I am inside, and it’s my job to put that place in order.  I am the only one [...]

What do you do with the lady’s horse that she leaves with you after she’s left you?  Well, it wasn’t the horse’s fault, though the big mare was part of it. The rest of it? There were the twins; she brought them up them with their ponies, and then with their show jumpers. I ran [...]